Bothering the Band

We had fun frolicking with our new BFF, singer/songwriter and social media maven Fia James, who has new tunes dropping soon!

Season 6 of Bothering the Band begins with Joe Talbot of the incredible band Idles warming up to us with poetry and positive reassurances that what we are doing is not dumb. 

Eating pancakes with Adea Frances & Billy Rymer of Atomic Life is the perfect way to cap off an epic season 5! Special thanks goes to our friend Kelly Munday for making episode one happen.

Cruising around in Joe Strummer's Cadillac, vaping with one hand and eating cupcakes with the other, while talking about duvet hacks with Monique from Save Ferris...our younger selves could not be more stoked!

Listen to this badass bonus hang with our talented pals Eamon McGrath and Craig Bjerring (aka Oldseed), in which we talk about life, snacks, and the challenge of making their recent remotely remote record "Jet Lag" all while interrupting each other.

Musician and social media personality, Petey USA joins us for a good conversation about songs, social media, squirrels, swamps, smoking cigs and surviving it all with humor intact.

Buckle the heck in because we had an absolute blast with comedian-actor-turned-pop-punk rocker Lauren Ash, who you may know from the hilarious show Superstore, but who now is following lifelong dreams and refusing to play by the rules.

Put on soundproofing headphones and a blindfold, because this episode with Bobby Burg and Melina Ausikaitis of Aitis Band is a mix of haunted houses and “that’s what she said” jokes. Special thanks to our brand whisperer & spiritual sage  Enid Casablanca  for joining us this week!

Welcome to the Podemic, where we bother Brendon Walsh & Sean O’Connor (of fellow Ruinous Media podcast Off the Records) while finger blasting C3PO with a handful of butter and Robitussin on our funniest episode ever?

Asa Taccone, Grammy-nominated songwriter, hitmaker, and mastermind behind everything from Portugal, the Man's “Feel It Still” to SNL’s “Dick in a Box" joins us to talk dental hygiene, Diet Coke, Electric Guest's new album 10K and hella more!

This episode is  chaos in the best way . The audio? Terrible. Mike’s truck? Victim of a hit and run. But somehow, in the middle of it all, we got to bothering the legendary Norwegian free jazz monsters (just kidding; they are pure rock-n-roll) The Thing!

our episode with singer, rocker, and rapper grandson (aka Jordan Benjamin) explodes with hope and optimism, just like his lean and ferocious new album Inertia!

Dive into this awesome episode with the endlessly witty UK band Sports Team, recorded remotely around a pool in the Hollywood Hills while they were on tour with Supergrass, proving dreams come true for both sides. 

We are chuckin' & wingin' a sequel to the film Titanic on this raucous bonus episode with rodeo core rocker Dead Tooth!

We smoked crack at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter with Tom and Will of our new favorite band Radium Dolls!

We discuss live music, wonder if Tom Cruise has ever had Papa Johns, and talk a lot about Taskmaster with the hilarious comedian/actor Michael Rowland, who currently stars on the Fox comedy Animal Control. 

Let the natural light of Dan Mangan wash over you as he is back on Bothering the Band to discuss sequels, sex, sandwiches, saunas, and his sensational new album, Natural Light. 

We beefed around and built a blanket fort with actor/comedian/author/improviser Bobby Moynihan, who talked about his very first CD, a Drunk Uncle movie, and more!

Directed by Christopher Nolan, this episode of Bothering the Band with Kelcey Ayer is filled with action, comedy, drama, sun-induced sneezes, Slipknot, shower caps and so much more!

In the words of our wayward host, "Billie Marten makes music that feels me as much as I feel it," and she is back on the pod with all the feelings and smiles to discuss her incredible new album Dog Eared. Listen to this episode and then feel Billie's music as it feels you.

Light the fireworks for this salute-worthy episode with the hilarious actor/comedian/podcaster Jon Gabrus! From inertia to nostalgia, music to comedy, this episode is a power-hour filled with nuggets of gold.

This week on Bothering the Band, we’re joined by comedian, actor, writer, bird guy, Adam Cayton-Holland! It’s part comedy deep dive, part birdwatching fever dream, part defending Dave Matthews Band, and all very, very dumb (in the best way). Plus, he drops some major movie news at the end!

It is totally Travis Shettel day on BTB! You may know him as the frontman of the band Piebald, but we now know him as our new best friend! And there is huge news for Piebald fans in this episode!

Hell yeah! We got to bother and befriend Missy of the killer band Mannequin Pussy, and man o man, she's got stories for days so listen the F up!

On this very special episode (recorded on  Take Your Kid to Work Day)  the show is taken over by Lennon, the daughter of host Ryan Buynak. You may recognize her iconic intro music, but today she’s in charge, and she’s bothering a very special guest: Utkarsh Ambudkar (actor, musician, renaissance man, and star of her favorite show,  Ghosts) !